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The unbearable Swiftness of web search

Swift proposal SE-0086 removed the NS prefix from many types in the Swift Foundation library. In doing so, it moves Swift away from its Cocoa roots to establish a cleaner language palette to work with. Swift adheres to a philosophy that type names should be clear, consise, and without needless prefixes.

Swift (the language) is now gaining sufficient traction that searches are far more responsive for programming than they used to be. Still, it helps to throw in an extra word or two like code, sample, or type to focus your search. You may also want to limit searches to, for example, “site:apple.com”.

And, yes, you can always pick up one of those Swift Calendars and read about Swift Dates. Swift wasn’t named after a certain pop star. It just sometimes acts like it was.